A Carol Presented To Dr. Williams, Bishop Of Lincoln As A New-year's Gift Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDDEEFFFGGH IIFFJEEKKHHLLMM NOOPP| Fly hence pale care no more remember | A |
| Past sorrows with the fled December | A |
| But let each pleasant cheek appear | B |
| Smooth as the childhood of the year | B |
| And sing a carol here | C |
| 'Twas brave 'twas brave could we command the hand | D |
| Of youth's swift watch to stand | D |
| As you have done your day | E |
| Then should we not decay | E |
| But all we wither and our light | F |
| Is spilt in everlasting night | F |
| Whenas your sight | F |
| Shows like the heavens above the moon | G |
| Like an eternal noon | G |
| That sees no setting sun | H |
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| Keep up those flames and though you shroud | I |
| Awhile your forehead in a cloud | I |
| Do it like the sun to write | F |
| In the air a greater text of light | F |
| Welcome to all our vows | J |
| And since you pay | E |
| To us this day | E |
| So long desir'd | K |
| See we have fir'd | K |
| Our holy spikenard and there's none | H |
| But brings his stick of cinnamon | H |
| His eager eye or smoother smile | L |
| And lays it gently on the pile | L |
| Which thus enkindled we invoke | M |
| Your name amidst the sacred smoke | M |
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| Chorus Come then great Lord | N |
| And see our altar burn | O |
| With love of your return | O |
| And not a man here but consumes | P |
| His soul to glad you in perfumes | P |
Robert Herrick
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